Algorithmic coloniality: Mechanized racialization and sexualization in digital capitalism
Abstract
In recent years, cultural studies on algorithm-based decision-making technologies have been on the rise. New approaches in social sciences and humanities aim to analyze particular cases of algorithmic biases, but also the structural relationship between algorithmic technologies and the exercise of power. In this article, I propose the concept of algorithmic coloniality, defined as the racialized and sexualized mechanization of the modern and contemporary world through digital technologies. Algorithms are a digital renewal of the rationalization and bureaucratization of the modern/capitalist world, but with racial and gender-based overtones. The contemporary world runs the risk of building a digital colony.
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